The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-22
FO[. JACK WHARTON.
,R1Es FOR WHICH He WAS FA,
NOUS RECALLED.

III C6nerd1-A Dl5 IOHSI Gdne-dlS
Ienge of Politics Came near Involv-
3 Him in Duels.
Hbjnqton Letter to the Philadelphia Times.
N Jack Wharton's life was a romance.
vas a scion of the celebrated Maryland
4lv of that name, as justly celebrated as
1arnett family of Virginia, which pro-
n such men as Muscoe r. H. Garnett.
married one of the millionaire Edwin
&tevens' daughters, of Hoboken, New
ev, and Algernon Sydney Garnett,
aon on board the Confederate war vessel.
kamed Merrimac. The elder Garnett
soon after the war, but Algernon Sgd
#Garnett, like Jack aWharton, accepted
sination under reconstruction and has
both fame and fortune practicing medi-
at the Hot Springs in Arkansas.
HI Jack Wharton was the best raconteur
ever delighted coterie of genial and
benial spirits in the rotunda of Wizards
y at Washington. Senator Kellogg, of
sana. gave him the United States
shalship of the latter State under the
ii + and Garfield administra tions, and he
suddenly in the New Orleans custom
he during President Arthur's administra-
in heated discussion involving South
pohtics. As stump sp9aker'Col Whar-
had no superior in the South. He was
bal in following Gen. Longstreet, who had
his old commander at the death and
kal of secession, and the day Lee surren-
Il Ii. in good faith Jack Wharton insisted
the dead past must bury its dead. and
his allegiance then became due to the
BE country and the new South and the
sincerity of the man, his great heart
his abounding good nature gave him the
lee to the heart of the Southern people
he was sure of immense audiences and
lent hearing wherever he chose to mea-
swords, in high debate, with the parti-
reconstructed orators and statesmen of
South. who, while bitterly reviling Col.
change of base in Southern politics.
ever ready to give him an honest and
tty welcome and to open their doors to
charmed alike by his grace and
illness of manner, his lion-like cour-
and his stubborn defense of his new
nds.
THEIR BOUNDLESS RESOURCES.
Fharton was still young when the war
I'D, and as an inimitable story teller,
Ochiltree, one of his bosom friends,
ID not hold candle to him. Col Jack
ID not endure hypocrisy in saint or sin
and it was the boast that instead of suf-
hg by the war, he was never better off
is life than when he commanded a cav
regiment in Texas, and he used to tell
great JUNCTION how Col. Tom Ochiltree,
was in his command, perhaps in the
e regiment, was sent to Gen. Steele of
Union army at Camden, Arkansas, with
be- Of t.uce, with instructions to make as
d an appearance as possible, and to inn
IS the Union commander with the wealth
FsOurces possessed by the half starving
lfederates in Texas. Jack Wharton told
story in these words:
We had been drinking commissary
SKy for three months, our clothes were
b and nearly worn out, but as good luck
bid have it, a blockade runner got into
or's snug harbor, near Galveston, of a
X night in spite of Federal vigilance. The
%ky blockader was freighted with saddles
French brandy, horse blankets and re-
4yers of the newest patterns. The Joy of
j Confederate camp was without bounds.
ley saddled their best steeds, using the new
Shipments, and their shining canteens were
ID with brandy such as could not have
7n purchased the day before the blockader
lived in part for 800 bottle-in Confed-
! tie money. The shining barrels of their
" reviewers caught the light of the morn
sun like the sheen of the minarets on
Phammedan mosque at sunrise, The re-
Under of the ragged regiment, some of the
iierS without hats, and many with tat
ed coats and shirtless, looked with un-
gned admiration at the corporal's guard
10 were ordered out, with their prancing
|eds, for the long journey to the Federal
Fces, intent on impressing Gen. Steele
tn the boundless resources of the Confed-
/ te contingent in Texas. Tom Ochiltree
in his clement as diplomat and soldier.
hen he reached Camden, Arkansas, he
Is warmly received by one of Gen.
|eele's staff officers and taken straight
the headquarters of the Federal COM
Under.
General, +" said the enterprising and dip
hattie Ochiltree, a lineal descendant of
ron Munchausen, L have brought you a
Ion of the best French brandy and with
solemnity the orderly produced the
bid.
WELL" said the Federal General, I'm
'mned if this isn't a godsend to man who
been drinking pine-tree whisky for three
'Dnths'
Let us smile, then,' said the festive
fmltree, who began to see what favorable
fpression he had made.
Are your men. all equipped in this man
Pr asked Gen. Steele.
|" % yes, said Ochiltree, this is only a
pr sample of our whole command and ac-
|rding to Ochiltrees story Gen. Steele
hs so astounded at the good condition of
force that he quietly got out Of
|rKansas the next day with his entire COM
'and.n
ONE OF wHARToN's STORIES.
Jack Wharton used to tell good story of
Pc of the MagrudeIs, long since dead, who
p on the ''off side" during the war, leav-
the United States army to take fight
place among the Confederates, and it is
/ ID by one who ought to know that Gen.
|earney, when surrounded by the Confeder-
4 pckets, could have saved his life by sur
fhder, but he could not bear the idea of be
caught by Magruder and his old West
ont companions, then arrayed against his
ReTnment, so with the dashing spirit
ilch always fired the soul of the Zone
med devil of New Jersey cavalry" he pre-
ned the chances of death to cap
ue, chung to his horse, prone on
neck, and a ball from picket's rife
flged straight through his body, ending in
instant the career of soldier as brave as
sur dc Lion and as chivalric as an And
Iian King.
PACKS story the boys always called him
PACK in Washington about Gen. Magruder
q 70 this effect: Both suffered from inl-
sunlosity at the end of the war. Mag
aer accepted place as agent for we'll
| gWn liquor firm in New York. He car
with him samples of the rarest old
neS, brandies OF fabulous antiquity, and
1era bought right out of Chief Justice
t%shalls cellar. Jack and Magruder met
Pune 1T. Nicholas Hotel New York, late in
winter of 1865, and the time was 4
tocN IN the morning. The bell boy was
Lleep and both M,nrn auersn 70 s1vnllino the